Neil Cooke

Deputy Group Chief Financial Officer at RAC WA | Non Executive Director

Greater Perth Area

About

Senior Executive and Non-Executive Director with experience in both financial and commercial leadership roles. I enjoy working closely with the business to define and implement strategy and build the support functions and frameworks and leading teams to ensure long term success. I have held various roles including Finance Manager, Financial Controller, Commercial Manager and Finance Director in small local to large global organisations in both listed and not for profit organisations. Specialties: Leadership, strategy, governance, financial planning & analysis, and commercial support

Experience

  • Non Executive Director at VenuesWest
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Non Executive Director at Diabetes WA
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • RAC WA (14 yrs 10 mos)
    • Deputy Group Chief Financial Officer
      Nov 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

      Reports to the Group Chief Financial Officer and leads the Corporate Accounting team. Supports Group regulatory reporting and compliance, financial analysis and planning, the RAC transformation program and the Corporate CFO team on growth opportunities for the RAC.

    • General Manager, Transformation
      Apr 2020 - Oct 2020 · 7 mos

      Lead RAC’s transformation program. This is the key program of work under RAC’s transformation pillar to build a stronger RAC guided by a renewed purpose vison and mission leading an interim team through the disruption and uncertainty created by COVID-19.

    • Enterprise Model Design Lead
      Oct 2019 - Mar 2020 · 6 mos

      Responsible for developing the organisational structure known as the Target Enterprise Model for the RAC as a key enabler and mechanism to deliver its Transformation program. I reported to the Program Manager and was a member of the Transformation team.

  • Finance Manager Asia Pacific at Unisys
    Aug 2008 - Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Finance Director at Unisys West Pty Ltd
    2006 - 2008 · 2 yrs